Henrietta Rose-Innes

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Henrietta Rose-Innes
Born
Occupation(s)Novelist and short-story writer
Awards Caine Prize for African Writing (2008)
Academic background
Alma mater University of Cape Town
University of the Witwatersrand [1]
University of East Anglia
Thesis Edgeland encounters in the South African city : stone plant: a novel  (2019)

Henrietta Rose-Innes (born 14 September 1971) is a South African novelist and short-story writer. She was the 2008 winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing [2] for her speculative-fiction story "Poison". [3] Her novel Nineveh was shortlisted for the 2012 Sunday Times Prize for Fiction and the M-Net Literary Awards. In September of that year her story "Sanctuary" was awarded second place in the 2012 BBC (Inter)national Short Story Award.

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Background

Rose-Innes was "born and bred" in Cape Town, South Africa. [4]

She has been a Fellow in Literature at the Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart (2007–08) and has held residencies at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center; Chateau de Lavigny, Lausanne; the kunst:raum sylt quelle, Sylt; Georgetown University; the University of Cape Town's Centre for Creative Writing; Caldera Arts Center, Oregon; and Hawthornden Castle Writer's Retreat, Scotland. She is a 2012 Gordon Fellow at the Gordon Institute for Creative and Performing Arts (GIPCA), University of Cape Town. [5] She has a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. [6]

Works

Novels

The Rock Alphabet has been published in Romanian (2007). Dream Homes: Schnappschüsse und Geschichten aus Kapstadt, collected essays and short stories, was published in German in 2008. [7] Nineveh has been translated into French [8] and Spanish [9] (both 2015), and Green Lion has appeared in French as L'Homme au Lion (2016). [10]

Short stories

Other short pieces have appeared in a variety of international publications, including The Best American Nonrequired Reading (2011), The Granta Book of the African Short Story (2011) and Granta online.

Compilations

Awards

See also

References

  1. "Henrietta Rose-Innes". Akademie Schloss Solitude. 26 March 2020. Retrieved 11 July 2022.
  2. 1 2 Irvine, Lindesay (8 July 2008). "Henrietta Rose-Innes wins £10,000 Caine prize". The Guardian.
  3. 1 2 "Prize-winning fiction: Apocalypse now – Readers reward horrible histories", The Economist, 10 July 2008.
  4. de Chamberet, Georgia (12 October 2017). "Interview Henrietta Rose-Innes, author". BookBlast. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  5. Fellowships, GIPCA.
  6. Rose-Innes, Henrietta (1 August 2018). Edgeland encounters in the South African city : stone plant: a novel (doctoral thesis). University of East Anglia.
  7. "Akademie Schloss Solitude". www.akademie-solitude.de. Archived from the original on 27 February 2014.
  8. "Editions ZOE / Ninive / Henrietta Rose-Innes".
  9. "Unnamed Press to launch Henrietta Rose-Innes in the US this year". Blake Friedmann. 14 March 2016. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  10. "Editions ZOE / l'Homme au lion / Henrietta Rose-Innes".
  11. Ben – Editor, "Henrietta Rose-Innes Wins $5,000 SA PEN Award", Books Live, 26 April 2007.
  12. Théron, Helen (22 July 2008). "Rose-Innes on the winning trail with Poison". www.news.uct.ac.za. Retrieved 11 July 2022.
  13. Henrietta Rose-Innes page at Blake Friedmann.